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And even if everything I posted is wrong and we are screwed like you say, what would you suggest we do about this? Every time this thread comes up its "frick fat people I hate them all" with zero solutions.

Forget the adults. They aren't changing.

Changing the culture begins in early childhood. Educational programs, better instruction of diet in schools and from parents, better education around the importance of personal health and fitness, better foods in cafeterias, more physical fitness required in schools, etc.

There are hints of this happening, but we still have a long way to go.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 1/27/15 at 2:59 pm to TheCaterpillar

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Forget the adults. They aren't changing.

Changing the culture begins in early childhood.

This is a fairly good point - I think we've upped our "morbidly obese" numbers, quite a bit, and we're probably getting heavier, earlier, due to a more sedentary modern lifestyle, but the kids are alarmingly fat. I can count on 2 hands the "fat" kids I went to school with until about the 10th, 11th grade - heck, I remember their names.

But - today, there are whole SCHOOLS full of fat, chubby little frickers.

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Posted by ZereauxSum

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Posted on 1/27/15 at 3:04 pm to TheCaterpillar

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Changing the culture begins in early childhood. Educational programs, better instruction of diet in schools and from parents, better education around the importance of personal health and fitness, better foods in cafeterias, more physical fitness required in schools, etc.

There are hints of this happening, but we still have a long way to go.

This is a very good answer. Upvoted.

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